What is the D plan's to become a used language?

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Dec 18 19:01:44 PST 2014


On 19/12/2014 10:22 a.m., Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 18/12/14 14:07, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> I'm in agreement that we need to start freezing the language.
>> E.g. in the next 6 months we will get x done. And no new features
>> other then
>> those chosen will be added.
>
> IMHO, it's important to demarcate well what is considered "done", but
> also to enthusiastically embrace breaking changes that improve the
> performance and reliability of the language.
>
> Well-defined and well-kept promises for what is stable, what is in
> development, and what is in the roadmap, matter more than just freezing
> things.  The fact that "problem X will never be fixed because of
> backwards compatibility" can be just as demotivating to uptake (if not
> more so) than "feature Y may change in the next release".

Basically you wrote exactly what I meant :)


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